Barton County democrat. [volume] (Great Bend, Kan.) 1885-1915, 1887-02-24


Ex-ALDERMAN DUFFy, of New York, who
turned informer on his colleagues in tho
sscombine,' of the Doodle board of aldermen,
has been surrendered by one of his bonds
men.
Brock & WIENER, wholesale clothing
manufacturers and dealers, of Buffalo, NJ
Y, have made an assignment Llab1htles,
$2O0, 900; preferences aggregate sl5O,oOo-
JAMES c. BARRETT. lawyer OF Rutland,
VT. met with a horrible death in tobog-
gan accident recently. A board which pro-
jected in the slide was driven through MS
body. A lady in the party was also fright
fully wounded.
REV DIR. TALMAGE announces tnat SER
mon, purporting to have been delivered oy
him Sunday, February Ii, entitled Fraud
Detected, and on the text Numbers
xxi. 33'' is bogus. He never preached
from that text and never uttered word OF
the sermon.
The building employers of New York City
have formed an organization to resist strikes
among their men.
ALL the bodies of the victims Of the Yer
mont railway disaster have now been iden-
titled.
THE New York Senate has passed the
Municipal Woman Suffrage bill
THE mutilated BODY of d man was found
on the edge of pond at Eddington, N. j.,
recently. Head and arms were missing,
and circumstances pointed to another
shocking tragedy.
DEANS dynamite works at Eldred, near
Bradford, Pa, blew up recently. Five dwell
ling houses were destroyed and three ladies
were injured
PITTSBURGH iron manufacturers deny that
they have sent money to Canada to influence
the coming Parliamentary elections
TIE WEST.
PnerO<r COpRFTT who slew Wilkes
Booth. the assassin of Abraham Lincoln,
and who lately was appointed assistant
doorkeeper of the Kansas House at Topeka,
drew knife on some colored men and at
tempted to stab them, He also drew re-
volver ON the sergeaut-at-arms, who at
tempted his arrest. He was finally dis
armed and lodged in jail 1t was generally
thought he was crazy.
AT Waterman. Ill, on the Chicago &
Iowa railway the other morning the Du-
buque train, with two sleepers on the end.
had Just passed the station when the Chi
cago, Burlington & Quincy train which fol-
lows crashed into it, completely wrecking
the sleeping cars. The only casualty was
to the engineer, who had his leg broken.
HEAVY transforms were reported from
Los Angeles. Cal, on the 18th. Several
Washouts occurred.
IT is expected that the late commissioners
of Cook County, Illinois, will soon be in
dicted for corruption. States Attorney
Grinnell claims to have q strong case
against them.
y.E. STILES and f. D. Dean were ar
rested in San Francisco on the 10th, charged
with being concerned in the recent dyna-
mite outrages on the street car lines. Ex-
plcsives and caps were found on Stiles and
bomb material was found in the residence
of Dean.
THE snow-sheds at Blue Canon, New, col
lapsed underline pressure of snow recently.
a snow-plow and seven engines were
ditched and the conductor, brakeman, road
master and one other employee were mis-
sing.
The Ohio Legislature has repealed the
law providing for separate schools for col
ored children.
A MAN giving the name of John Cole was
arrested recently at Marietta O., on suspi-
cIon of being the prisoner rescued at Ra-
VIENNA a few nights before. A description
was sent to Cleveland and an unsuccessful
attempt was made to photograph him. At
night he broke from his cell, released all
the prisoners and fed. In the morning
dispatch came from Cleveland saying he
was undoubtedly the man wanted.
OIL has been struck at Bryan, Williams
County, Ohio, flowing at the rate of 100 bar
rels an hour.
THE commissioners of Kings County,
Washington Territory, have asked Con
gross to repay them 81, 16S expended during
the anti Chinese disturbances i'll November,
1885, and February, 1885,
ROBERT BONNER, it was reported, has
declined an offer of 500, 900 for the trotter
Maud S.
THOMAS HANLoN, who was rejected by the
Senate as United States Internal Revenue
Agent for the Seventh Indiana district, shot
and mortally wounded Lewis Sicar, at
Louisville, KY, recently.
THE general passenger agents of the
Western, Southwestern and Northwestern
Passenger Associations, in session at Chi
cago considering the Interstate Commerce
law, have decided against the present sys-
tenn of issuing thousand-mile and theatrical
passes.